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Thats the point. People should realize that just because someone is doing some software as a hobby doesn’t mean he doesn’t need to earn money. YOU PEOPLE, IF YOU USE GREAT SOFTWARE PAY FOR IT PLEASE. Don’t let great FOSS software die out, and donate. Just give those 20$, its not much for you (some shitty chineese gadgets), and its so much for devs if everyone do that. Wherever you want to buy some chineese gadget, donate it to actually great software instead of chineese scammer please.
Only until enshittification kicks in
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Is that hyperlink a bad copy/paste or is there some connection there that I’m not understanding?
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it sounds like you are implying that FLOSS programs include annoying advertising. I don’t recall the last time I saw any, and Free Software actually helps make that possible because someone else could easily, relatively speaking, fork it and release the same thing legally without the ads.
The fuck is this stupid ass meme format lol
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Now that I have your attention…
My first thought as well
Organic Maps is the upgrade over Google Maps.
I use it on my daily basis. Never disappointed me in about 2 years now. So yeah, great app. (Sometimes I use waze too to avoid you know :)
You’re not wrong. I use it a lot. it’s super for short local trips and maybe medium trips.
When I asked it to go a few states over, routing cost me a couple of hours last time before I realized something was off.
Use it, but scrutinize it.
The same should be said for any GPS app.
Card end up down pedestrian paths because the driver didn’t think about what the GPS was telling them.
The only reason I use Google Maps is I use an old ass phone with limited storage space, and it won’t let me remove Google Maps.
They made the RTX version, so now I can see it in 4k, thank you developers!
But when the open source app becomes the best one, it becomes impossible to beat it. Look VLC for example.
There are a few examples where the foss version of the app became the best one. I am having trouble remembering others. But I think BitWarden is just as good as any paid password manager.
Or Blender
Vlc is basically what it is because of ffmpeg and the likes, which are… Corporate supported :p
That said ffmpeg didnt start that way, but at one point it was and vlc quickly jumped into popularity because of it and it quickly supporting new formats ( like mkv back in 2003/2004 ).
Youre not wrong, but its more complex than that xD
Because you are the product, not the software that you use.
I think a lot of paid commercial software is significantly better than FLOSS
Name paid commercial software to replace grep
you dont replace perfection.
That sounds like exploitation of free labor with extra steps and a vegan coat.
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You’ve never worked on software in a big company have you?
I can only speak for myself, but I used to love to get home from work and contribute to free software projects I found interesting. Since I got a good paying tech job at a big company, the last thing I want to do is more of the same when I get home. (having kids around the same time probably had an influence too).
There are definitely a lot of brilliant engineers working at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, they just get hamstrung by management.
That’s the point
Repost, but the post is good enough so I don’t care
OK who changed the wojak into a beautiful woman?
It was on Lemmy World’s All[0] less than 10 days ago.
Yeah, that’s where I pulled it from.
That art style is pretty off-putting tbh.
The naked woman is kinda odd too
She might be wearing a tube top. Need a wider angle to be sure.
wojak is a beautiful woman
Yay
It’s not, though. It’s a big reason why I’m here, in fact. Boost for Android is awesome!
Boost went open-source?
Oh that’s a good point, I don’t know (or care) if Boost is open source. I was more referring to Lemmy.
And it’s actually not slightly worse but better in every way.
